Winnefox Electronic Resources, now available through your library's web site, helps to provide residents new reliable resources from the convenience of the nearest computer — paid for by state system aids through Winnefox. Database resources include:

• Very few libraries could afford to pay on their own for access to these databases.

  EBSCO eBook Collection — Handy for homework, after-hours reference work
• Overdrive — Downloadable audiobooks, electronic books, music and video for your PC, Mac or compatible portable device
• WorldCat — Catalog of materials owned by more than 9,000 worldwide member libraries

With a total annual subscription price of more than $40,000 for these electronic resources, very few libraries could afford to offer these resources. Winnefox purchases such items on behalf of member libraries at a tremendous cost savings to the libraries.

Electronic Services staff provides member libraries extensive support in the following areas:

• Purchasing electronic services and providing training to member library staff in their use.
• Web site design and training for member libraries that wish to maintain their own web sites.
• Developing and maintaining the System's Extranet.
• Developing local custom electronic resources for Winnefox member libraries.

Also available through your library's web site is BadgerLink, a gateway to more than 6000 magazines, journals, and newspapers. Included in BadgerLink are:

• Academic Search Premier — Scholarly articles on subjects including the sciences, sociology, law, the arts, and more
• AHFS Consumer Medication Information — Vital education on medications and natrual products for patients in an easy to understand question-and-answer format
• Alt HealthWatch — Holistic and alternative approaches to health care and wellness
• AP NewsMonitor Collection — Near real-time access to world-wide news from the Associated Press provides a 30 day rolling full-text archive
• Auto Repair Reference Center — Maintenance, repair, recall information for vehicles 1954-present
• Book Collection: Nonfiction: Elementary School Edition — Search animals, weather, holidays, Native Americans, United States, Canada, biographies, civics and more
• Book Collection: Nonfiction: High School Edition — Search careers, health, ethnicity, disabilities, technology, biographies, music, science, history, civics and more
• Book Collection: Nonfiction: Middle School Edition — Search careers, health, ethnicity, disabilities, technology, biographies, history, science, women, civics and more
• Britannica Online Elementary School — Easy-to-read encyclopedia articles cover subjects for school and fun, from nations of the world to animals and sports
• Britannica Online High School — Encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, illustrations, maps, and biographies
• Britannica Online Learning Zone — Early-childhood learning, covering letters, words, numbers, time, sound, geography and more
• Britannica Online Middle School — Search Compton's and other resources for geography, science, arts, and additional topics
• Business Source Premier — Company and industry profiles, country and market research reports
• Compartimientos/Diarios en Texto Completo — BadgerLink databases in Spanish
• Consumer Health Complete — Mainstream and holistic medicine perspectives on aging, diseases, drugs and herbs, nutrition, and men's, women's, and children's health
• Consumer Reports — Ratings and recommendations of brand-name consumer products and services
• Consumer Reports Buying Guide — Product test results for major purchases such as automobiles and appliances to everyday items such as food and cleaning products
• Digital Science Online — Visual teaching tools for the elementary and middle school science classroom
• Education Research Complete — Topics cover all levels of education, early childhood to higher education, and all specialties (multilingual, health, testing, and more)
• Educational Administration Abstracts — Covers leadership, management, research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline
• ERIC — the Educational Resource Information Center containing information essential to improving teaching, learning, and educational decision-making
• European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 — Comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750
• FDA Consumer — Search back issues of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's magazine from 1984-2007
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia — Over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas
• Greenfile — Covers all aspects of human impact to the environment: global warming, pollution, green building, renewable energy, recycling, and more
• Health Source: Consumer Edition — Rich collection of information on medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition — Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines
• HeritageQuest Online — Census records 1790-1930, family and local histories, Freedman's Bank and more
• History Reference Center — U.S. and World History from 'prehistory' to current times
• Humanities International Complete — Covers all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought
• Kids Search — Designed especially for youth in grades K-5, search by keyword and limit by topic to find the most useful results
• LearningExpress Library — Practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and information you need to achieve results
• Literary Reference Center — Detailed information on the most studied authors and their works
• LitFinder — Tons of poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays
• MAS Ultra School Edition — Full text reference books, popular magazines, biographies, and images for high school level searchers
• Masterfile Premier — Covers virtually every subject area of general interest: reference, business, health, education, science, multicultural issues and more
• MedLine — Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more
• Middle Search Plus — Full text of 140+ popular middle school magazines. Also biographies, historical essays, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags
• Military & Government Collection — Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government
• Newspaper Archive — Millions of searchable newspaper pages dating back as far as the 1700s presented in original format/context
• Newspaper Source Plus — Includes 1,000+ full-text newspapers, as well as 913,000 television and radio news transcripts
• Novelist — Assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles (If you like... you'll like...)
• Novelist K-8 — Fiction database designed with a bright, appealing layout for elementary and middle schools
• Primary Search — Full text of popular magazines for elementary school research
• Professional Development Collection — Specialized collection for professional educators containing educational reports and education journals
• Regional Business News — Business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States
• Science Reference Center — Topics include biology, chemistry, earth and space science, environmental science, health and medicine, physics, technology and wildlife
• Searchasaurus — Animated dinosaur-themed interface containing an encyclopedia of animals, a general encyclopedia, a dictionary and lots of pictures
• Songbook Database — Check out songs related to composers and writers with Wisconsin roots
• Soundzabound — Royalty free music and sound effects designed specifically for K-12 school use
• Student Research Center — Keyword or topic searches to assist youth in grades 6-12 to find the most useful search results
• TeachingBooks — Author and illustrator resources, book guides with activities for library and classroom, and audio excerpts of book readings
• Wisconsin Media Lab — Streaming and downloadable video programs for K-12 students and teachers
• Wisconsin Newspapers Digital Research Site — Access to Wisconsin Newspaper Association's daily and weekly member-newspapers from April 2005 to present (with a two month embargo)

Access the selection of Electronic Resources through any Winnefox member library web site.